Document Type

Article

Publication Title

HYLE – International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry

Publisher

HYLE

Publication Date

2005

Volume

11

Issue

1

Disciplines

Philosophy

Abstract

The growing presence of the products of nanotechnology in the public domain raises a number of ethical questions. This paper considers whether existing environmental ethics can provide some guidance on these questions. After a brief discussion of the appropriateness of an environmental ethics framework for the task at hand, the paper identifies a representative environmental ethic and uses it to evaluate four salient issues that emerge from nanotechnology. The discussion is intended both to give an initial theoretical take on nanotechnology from the perspective of environmental ethics and to provide a clear indication of the direction from which environmental resistance might come.

Keywords

nanotechnology, environmental ethics, nature, fabricated biology, evolution

Comments

Originally published by HYLE, vol. 11, no. 1 (2005).

Rights

©2005 HYLE and Christopher J. Preston

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